There is a widespread expectancy regarding to-day's debate in the House of Commons on tariff preference initiated by the Liberal amendment to ...
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Article : 184 wordsStep by step wireless telephony—now worked up to such a wonderful state of efficiency—has been entering into the private and commercial life of Tasmania as ...
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Article : 191 wordsThe Russian representative in London (M. Rakevsky), who presided at a dinner to the Soviet Trade Delegation yesterday, proposed the toast of the ...
Article : 74 wordsA large number of residents of West Hobart availed themselves of the invitation to gather at the Lansdowne-crescent School (where a "listening-in" set ...
Article : 105 wordsA surprising incident marked the opening of the sitting of the Commission appointed by the Chamber of Deputies to inquire into the sources of ...
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Article : 67 wordsThe Paris newspaper "Liberte," which is opposed to the present French Government, publishes a statement to-day declaring that the decision to withdraw ...
Article : 136 wordsDuring the performance many telephone calls were received at the studio from enthusiastic listeners-in, For one the line was held for a while while he turned his ...
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Article : 554 wordsThe wireless concert broadcasted to-night from "The Mercury' office was scarcely audible by "listeners-in" in the Oatlands district. A very faint wave ...
Article : 110 wordsLargely as the outcome of the Trevessa steamship disaster a special lifeboat wireless plant has been perfected, and a proportion of the lifeboats on ...
Article : 91 wordsLast night the radiation could not be raised over two amperes. The reason for this failure was that a counterpoise, or second aerial, had not been erected. The ...
Article : 101 wordsSir Joseph Cook, the High Commissioner for Australia, lectured to-day at the Insurance Institute on the urgent problems of the world. He expressed the ...
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Article : 143 wordsMr. MacDonald, in a statement made to-day, says it is absolutely untrue that he made any representations for the withdrawal of Count de Saint-Aulaire. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Privy Council dismissed to-day the appeal of the Victoria Insurance Co. from the judgment of the Supreme Court of New South Wales holding ...
Article : 121 wordsThe broadcasting programme sent out from Hobart to-night was received by a local "listener-in" for a few minutes only, when the concert was cut off by an ...
Article : 53 wordsAfter the performance Mr. Cameron expressed himself as very well satisfied with the results that had been achieved, despite the difficulties which had been ...
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Article : 72 wordsSir Robert West, one of the trustees of the National Art Gallery, speaking at the Authors' Club dinner to-night, said they had no power to loan works of art to the ...
Article : 108 wordsOwners of wireless plant in the Huon were disappointed at not hearing Hobart to-night, all being unsuccessful for different reasons. Messrs. Skinner Bros., of ...
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Article : 158 wordsLocal listeners-in report that no success attended their efforts to pick up the first of the broadcasting programmes from Hobart. They heard nothing. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 18 Dec 1924, Page 9
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